March IS, 1900.
THE OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEE.
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ONE OF KRUO'S
HE draft horses of Omaha or
better than those of any town in
the country and the streets of
Omaha are a perpetual horse
how." This Is the unqualified
statement of Waltor Jardlne. head of the
Omaha Merchants' Express company, which
Arm has 215 heavy horses, and is also the
buyer for most of the owners of heavy
horses In Omaha. "The stock of this city
Is kept In better condition than any other
place I have visited, and I have been all
over and have made a special study of
these horses wherever I have been. Omaha
has fewer cripples and the stock Is better
fed and less abused."
One of the first sights which greets the
eye of a stranger coming Into a city is
the horses he sees, usually around the
depot, on the mall wagons and transfer
wagons, and to the rural stranger the con
dition of the horses would go a long ways
to Influence his opinion of the whole city.
First Impressions are, often lasting, and
Omaha should be proud of the splendid
showing Its draft horses make upon the
streets of Omaha. The Horse Rliow has
done considerable during the last two years
to Increase the number of good driving
and park horses in Omaha, and the di
rectors made a wise move last fall when
prizes were offered for the best draft
horses. If the owners of heavy hauler
realise that the eyes of the public aro
upon them they will take more care and
pride In their stock.
Omaha has always had a reputation of
having good horses, the first being brought
here forty-two years ago and were used
by the Omaha Transfer company to haul
ho heavy loads across the ferry before the
"allroad ran Into this town. About eighty
,, tilendld big horses were used at this work
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s-igj n ever lice Omaha has had a goodly
r'supply of fine big teams,
Horses of Omaha are not abused as In
some cities where they are overloaded. The are driven with two reins and are close up,
Omaha haulers go on the theory that It Is so the driver can use a little persuasion if a
better to keep a horse In good condition, horse lags behind and shirks his share of
so he can work day In and day out, than the burden. It la well known that the
to have. him all crippled up by overloading, nearer to the load a team Is placed the
A nearsighted, horse is the worst a man more effective are its efforts to move the
can own, for he lacks Judgment, snd many load and so the third horse behind can do
horses which are sound otherwise are near- much more can one horse In front, although
sighted, although some queer actlona on not quite as much as two. Most of the
their part may be attributed to some other breworles are doing away with their four
cause.' horse teams and are using three on the
Following the advice of Mr. Jardlne, the heavy beer wagons. Louis Met- has al
heavy haulers of Omaha have all used ways been an advocate of this style for
horses that weigh in the neighborhood of heavy hauling and many are following his
1,500 pounds, as this horse is found prefer- example. Jardlne, who does most of the
able to the larger one for several reasons, heavy hauling of the city, also has more
It Is hard to get a horse that weighs over three-horse teams than four-horse teams.
1.600 pounda that will last, and bctsldea Louis Mets said: "I have always advo
there la such a demand for the heavier cated the three-horse teams. Three horsea
horses In the east that they are much more can haul all the loads needed around thla
expensive. Western cies are supplied with c'ty. ".nd besides the backing is the big
mailer horses from the south and west, thing. At tno Northwestern depot the space
I ' the ranch horses being sent in large num-
I 1 ber. Oregon also sends Lots of horses,
V, which are a trifle larger than the Texas or
I Wyoming horses. The horse that weighs
1,500 rounds la the most valuable because
he will last much better than the heavier
horse.
Most of the merchandise of South Omaha
la hauled from Omaha by teams, this be
ing the easiest way of getting groceries
from, the Jobbing houses to the grocery
tores of South Omaha. When a wagon
la once loaded at one of the wholesale
, houses it Is cheaper to haul the load to
South Omaha than to take to. a depot, un
load, put in a car and reload at the other
end. For thla work some good teama are
used, aa it la a long pull from the Jobbing
district to the top of the hill at Blxteenth
and Vinton streets.
Three-Horse Team Preferred.
Omaha Jobbers and brewers who require
extra horse teams are doing away with the
four-horse teams and are using three,
horsea instead. Three horses are much
more suitable for Omaha for several rea- barns, every one able to go on the streets
ons. At some of the freight depots and for a day's work. Care is taken in select
other places where heavy loads are secured ing these horses and the best care Is given
considerable backing has to be done and them in the stables. The Merchants Ex-
America Supplies Teeth
in
IP there is any gnashing of teeth
going on at this present writing,"
remarks the facetious drummer,
"you can be safe in betting the
teeth are American made."
Just as America has taken the commercial
.ilead In many other articles of manufacture
mat no one dreamed Vncle Sam would
ever control, so gradually the superiority
of American made teeth has forcii all ni.
tiona to come to this country for tbeir
dental supplies, until today It Is no exag-
geratlon to say that at this moment mil-
lions of Jaws In Europe and Asia and Af- heat. After that the girls get in their
riea are masticating with the aid of the fine work, polUhing and finishing and ex
product of United States tooth factories. To amlnlng for defects, for the smallest flaw
Philadelphia belongs the honor of having in the tooth will cause discomfort when
the largest place for the manufacture of In the mouth. Some of the girls, skilled
artificial teeth In the world. These teeth to the work, sit all day long critically ex
have been sent to the ends of the earth. amlnlng the cards of sblnlng teeth and die
In other days every dentist made his teeth carding those that are Imperfect and need
In a little laboratory attached to his office, further touching up.
Now they are made In gigantic factories There are faddists In teeth as In every
where hundreds of hands are employed, thing else.. Sometimes a toothless person
The labor is of ths most skilled order, and will order a set of teeth of the kind she
the fine hand of woman Is employed with has seen some one else flashing on an
satisfaction In shaping and finishing the admiring audience. If these are artificial
gleaming dental supplies. In one of the big nd the covetous one wUl pay the price,
factories there is a capacious fireproof room the dentist wiU make a point of basking
in which are kept the moulds of hundreds in the gleaming smile of the possessor ef
of different kinds of teeth. Should there the fine set of teeth, and will then order
be a call for teeth of a particular pattern a set expressly made to match it. The
-supplied by the factory years ago, the Uga, 0f supplying such an order Is often
mould could be got in a few mlnutea and easy, aa long years of experience in mould-
tne oraer nnea with much greater celerity
then If a new style were required,
When the new teeth are ordered and
there are fsshlons lu teeth. It seems It
is necessary to make a mould at first.
The greatest rare is taken, by handworkers
in the preparation of these moulds, which
must oe snapeo ana tooled with the utmost
precision in ordwr that the teeth may con-
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FIND FOUR-HORSE TEAMS.
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with a four-horse team the wheelers are
obliged to do all this heavy work, whereaa
In a three-horse team three horses assist
In that work. Backing Is one of the hard
parts of heavy teaming and when two
horses are compelled to back a load which
It takes four horses to pull ' forward. It la
asking a good deal of the wheelers. Few
drivers can handle a four-horse team so
the leaders will do their share of the labor,
the wheelers being called upon to bear the
brunt of the burden. With three horses all
Is so limited they will not let you drive
your wagon along sideways and you are
forced to back. With four horses the
wheelers have to do all this, and It soon ,
showa on the big wheelers. So many other
arguments could be presented In favor of
the three-horse teams that I am surprised
when I see a man In the heavy hauling
business who has a four-ln-hand."
Davis, who does the heavy hauling, haa
Jumbo, probably the largest horse In the
city.' Oavls has several wagons for the
hauling of safes and also hauls the paper
for the three Omaha dailies, no Inconsider
able amount being required. He does thla
work with the three-horse teams. Jumbo
ts the big grey "Cyclone" drives In the
middle of the three, and may be seen any
-landing in front of one or another of
the newspaper offices while the heavy rolls
of paper are being unloaded.
Never Works a Cripple.
The most extensive owner of draft horsea
In Omaha Is the Merchants Express com
pany, which has 216 fine horses in the
for the World's Toothless
form to the shape and style ordered.
When the mould Is made It Is filled with
the soft composition and the cover put on
to press It into the shape of the mould,
The nature of this composition, which re-
sembles In appearance plaster of purls. Is
a factory secret. When the composition
is In the mould It is placed in an over
to be hardened. From the oven it travels
annthfr cvnArjLtnr. whfs trimfl aft the
rough edges and shapes It into the flnished
tooth. Then It goes to the furnace to re-
ceive the final baking at a tremendous
inm teeth has secured models of almost
every kind of genuine teeth, but occasion
ally there are ordered what is known aa
"freak teeth" teeth which have a peculiar
color and a shape so different from any
teeth before manufactured that it takes
days of experiment with chemicals and
moulds to produce anything that ap-
jiroaches the original. New York Tribune.
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MERCHANTS' EXPRESS TRIO.
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press company prides Itself In never send-
ing out a crippled horse, and this care is
reflected In the splendid condition of the
horses and the length of time they last
at hard work. ' Several teams of this com-
pany, daily seen on the streets, have been
at work for fourteen or fifteen years and
come. A good show
Entertaining Little Stories for
Lost la the Desert.
LL alone on the desert!
Away off on one side stretched
the sky. On the other side were
the mountains. In the distance
sounded a coyote's bark.
There alone sat a baby girl. Not a per-
son waa in Bight, nor even a house. Where
were the little girl's mother and father?
Where waa the great wagon In which they
had been riding?
Baby Minnie could not telL She only
knew that in a great storm the horses
had been frightened and had run away,
She had been tossed from the wagon into
the sand and left alone. It waa dark now,
and she was hungry.
The cactus plants stood about her. They
Packed her Angers when she touched them,
Tne tar" cm ou n ky- Minnie
thought of the "wish" she and her sis-
ters said when they saw the first stsr.
She began saying drowsily to herself.
"Btar light, star bright.
First star I see tonight"
She did not finish the rhyme, for Just
then she thought she saw a man.
She tried to call but she could hardly
hear her own voice. She lay down on
the ground and sobbed, as the man went
on into the dusk.
In a miner's cabin, a mile away, a man
sat with his head In hla bands. A woman
stood In the doorway, looking out at the
stars.
"My baby." she sighed, "where are you,
all alone, tonight!"
Turning to the man in the cabin, aha
said. "Come ManueL We must look
again."
A miner came toward the cabin. "You
did not see anything of her? you did not
see my baby, did you?" The womss then
told the man how her baoy had been lost
In a storm.
-l wonder if it was a child?" cried the
man. "I thought I saw aa animal in the
cactus. It waa out there." he said, point-
ins;.
The maa ran out. followed by the we-
men and her husband. At last he stonned.
There in the moonlight. In th shade of
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SNAP SHOT ON TENTH STREET VIADUCT.
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of the hordes of this barn was made aev-
era! years ago when Mr. Jardlne hauled the
whale to town and around town for Sam-
son with his forty-two horse team. Mr.
Jardlne says the most noticeable thing
about- the heavy hauling In Omaha Is the
almost total absence of whipping by the
drivers. The horBcs are well kept and
big plant, lay Baby Minnie, fast asleep.
Little Chronicle.
Funny Game for Relay Day.
"Never mind If It does rain. Mamma al
ways thinks of something extra nice for
n' W "a,a rola-
"I have thought of something now," said
mamma. "Get some pieces of smooth
brown paper for Frankle and little Helen,
and some of that pretty green cardboard
for Esther and Mabel, and you and Leon
may use your scrupbooks. I will pick out
some old magasines and Leon may get
some paste. Esther, you may take the
cloth off the dining table and spread out
some newspapers. I am going to Bhqw
you how to make crasy pictures."
The children ran to collect the things
and mamma sent Harold for both pairs of
scissors and the shears, and Esther for
some empty boxes and covers to lay the
parts of pictures in.
"Now," said mamma, giving the things
round to the different ones as she spoke,
"you may cut the brown paper Into sheets
about 6xS Inches; you may cut the card
board the same else.
"'ow all you little ones may cut out the
pictures of everything in the advertisement
Pe " "ve. bu dm't try to cut
them close to the picture; let the older
ones do that. Harold may punch th sheets
on n end- they can be Ued together
to make a book when they are done. You
e0"1" make a book at first, but If you spoil
P" k badly to cut It out, so I
,llt sheets best."
Then mamma cut out several pictures
Quickly, and cut off . their heads and arms
nl ''' putting the heads into one box,
the arms Into another, the legs into a
third, and the bodies into a fourth. Some-
times she left the arms with the body, aa
11 would spoil some of the bodies to have
them cut off.
A soon as all the children had pictures
enough cut so there were quite a number in
each box. mamma gave a body to each
tlilld. and thea while one waa picking ou.
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XCD WAGONS REQUIRE STRONG,
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full of spirit and do not need the urging
required by a team that is underfed and
overloaded needs.
Next to the Merchants Express company
the Omaha Ice and Cold Storage company
has the most draft horses of any in Omaha,
The stables of this firm have ninety head
of big, heavy work horses. The ice bual-
Little People
a pair of legs another waa choosing arms
and another a head. As soon as any one
had a picture ready he pasted it on his
sheet or book, and a craiy-looklng set of
pictures they were I
The little children's were the funniest,
for sometimes they placed feet where
hands should be, and they made the body
turn one way and the head another. Some
times a g rl had a dog's head, or a man
had the body of a child and the skirts of
a woman. One boy drawing a sled had
the legs of an ostrich.
They were all surprised when Maggie
came to set the table for luncheon. "Let
send these pictures to the children's hos
pital," said Mabel, "and they will make
the children there laugh, too." Youth's
Companion.
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Prattle ef the Yanatere.
"What la a heroine, Elsie?" asked the
teacher of a small pupil.
"Any woman who is married, mamma
says," answered Elsie.
Grace Teacher says we must always do
our duty. What la duty?
Bobble It's the thing we ought to do
when we want to do something else.
Teacher-Here's a little sum In addition
for you. If your father gave you 10 cents
and your mother gave you I. what would
ou then have? -Jimmy
I'd have a fit.
A school teacher one day during the hour
for drawing suggested to her pupils that
each draw what be or she would like to be
when grown up.
At the end of tne lesson one Uttle girl
showed aq empty slate.
"Why," said the teacher, "isn't there any
thing you would like fao be when you grow
up?"
"Yes." said th little girl, "I would like to
be married, hut X don' I know how to draw
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TORZ BREWING COMPANY USES SPLENDID HORSE9.
HEAVY HORSES.
ness requites larger horses, for with Its
Immense hood the Ice wagon la a load In
itself and when filled with loe a heavy
team is needed to move it. Then, too,
these wagons are sent into the residence
districts of the city, where hills are
abundant and where a small horse could
not pull the load. These horses are used
on coal wagons in the winter and ice
wagons In the summer time.
Mets Brothers, Stors and Krug each have
about fifty horsea for the brewery work,
and each takes pride In the condition of
the teams. Louis Mets looks ' after the
horses for his Arm, and haa for several
yeara, and never allowe a horae out that la
not in good condition. He haa lighter
horses for the bottle beer wagon and these'
are permitted to trot, but the driver Is
discharged without a word if he is caught
trotting one of the heavy brewery teama.
On most of the routea from the breweries,
a driver Is given two teams, one for the
forenoon and one for the afternoon. All
bottle beer wagons have two teams. The
breweries are always on the lookout for
good horses and Mr. Jardlne is also In-
structed to buy any good team he may
strike In his travels around the country
which he thinks would make a good brew-
ery team. Mets Bros, tried out a large
automobile for delivery of bottle beer, but
it was sent bock to the factory last week
and horses will still be used.
Sunderland has some fine horses on his
coal and cement wagons, and the Chicago Omaha to any extent, the horse being
Lumber company and C. N. Diets Lumber better adapted for city work with lta
company also pride themselves on their larger foot The horse is built closer' to
fine teams. the ground and can haul a larger load than
The packing companies also have a fine the mule. Horses are bred especially for
line of heavy horses. . Some time ago the heavy city work and are beat adapted for
packing companies agreed among them- that. The original Clydesdale and Norman
aelvea to atop making dellverlea in Omaha Percheron are all Imported horses and, al
and the horses were disposed of. The though ome good sires are kept In thl
agreement has been broken and the heavy country. It Is constantly necessary to im
meat wagona are again seen on the streets,
Large horses are also used by Paxton
at Vlerllng and other heavy Iron (workers,
The Standard OH company has some teams
which help out the splendid procession of
good looking horses which is constantly
seen on the atreet.
The laundry owners are taking a step
in the right ' direction by buying better
horses each year. Many new wagons are
seen on the streets for the hauling of
oiled linen which require heavy horses,
and the class of these horses la improving
constantly. Milk wagons are being con
structed larger than heretofore and better
horses are required on these wagona
Normaa Horse the Leeal Favorite.
The Norman horse Is the most preferred
How a Montana Man
-HE subject of wild animal pets oc
cupied the attention of a number
of the old-tlnicrs of Butte and
nearly every one had a word
or two to say
about queer
pets caught by different people. "I never
had a queer pet In my life," said one tt
those present, "but it was not my fault.
tried hard enough to catch one. It was
many years ago and I was younger thsn
I am now. I was living In the redwoods
of California and deer were plentiful. To
keep the meat we used to hang It up In
the wide chimney. There it would be
smoked In a day or two and would be-
come so well preserved that It would never
spoil. But a wildcat soon learned the
hablta of my cabin and I would often
wake up In the morning to And the choicest
part of the venlaon haunch gnawed away.
How to catch the thief was a matter
I pussled over nightly, and finally I
rigged a 'panchlon,' so that I could pull
ov" tha mou,h of th.chlmey nd trI
"Well. I lay awake that night holding
the end of the string and waiting for the
wildcat. I bad heard that wildcats could
, be tamed and made Into house pets, cni
I wanted to make the experiment and at
the same time catch the thief. 'Presently
I heard the cat climb down the, chimney
and I pulled the string. Immediately the
cat realised he waa a prisoner and he be
gan to raise a merry and particular
brand of Cain In that wide chimney. He
would make a spring into the air, land
hard against the big "panchlon' I had
pulled over the chimney, and then he
would lose his balance and fall down
among the ashes. Thla would fease him
for only a second, and he would snarl and
try it again. Th third Um be bad tried to
of Omaha
In Omaha, and Is considered the most valu
able for heavy hauling. He has good ac
tion and his Judgment is good, a very es
sential quality for a horse, and will outlast
any other horse which ran be put on the
streets. Ills wind Is of the best. He is
nearer a general purpose horse than any.'
Even the doctors fall to agree as to the
typical draft horse. At the Omaha Horsa
show last fall soeclal prises were offered
for the draft horse classes and McCord'e
Ills Brother carried off the honors, although
Judge Moulton, tho presiding Judge, re
marked that the horse was Jio draft horse, ,
Mr. McCord replied that he was not up on
draft horses, but the horse was able to
pick up any load they wished to pile In
the wagon and walk off with It. Mr. Jar
dlne says the horse Is one of the best draft
horses he ever saw.
The length of time which some of these
horses have been hauling heavy loads on
the streets is most remarkable. Cudahy
has a team which has been driven fop
seventeen years. Ixiuls Mets has a big
driving horse that has been in commission
for. sixteen years and the Merchants Ex
press company has a heavy team that
has been hauling from four to seven tone
at a load every day for the last fourteen
years.
Boeiree of Local Snpply.
Most of the horses used In Omaha ooma
from eastern Iowa and western Illinois,
nd some from South Dakota. These horsea
are superior to horses from some other sec
tions, especially In the west where the breed
may be all right, but where the growth la
not properly attended to. A colt start
out all right, but Is allowed to hustle for
himself until he soon loses flesh and hi
growth is stunted. The only way to keep
horse right is to keep him in flesh from
the time he la born, and the flesh then be
comes a part of him and is hardened so
that It Is not oesessary to fatten the horse
for market aa one would a ateer.
Some rulea are laid down by Mr. Jardlne
in buying hla horses which might be of ln-
terest. He said: "Don't buy a fat horse,
for he' will not last in that condition, and
then you will have a different horse. Start
at the feet first to pick out a good one and
see that he has a long hock Joint. A good,
flat bone, without too much meat or gristle,
Always pick a horse which stands with hi
feet well under him and a horse with a good
straight back. Pick a horse with a good
clear eye, not one with little pig eyes, for
a horse with a bad eye la bad. I travel
all over this country for 00 miles every
way to pick up the horses needed in Omaha
and And many good ones."
Males not in Service.
Mules for heavy work are not used In
port new blood to keep tne siock rrom
deteriorating. Few special breeding farm
are found in Nebraska, although many
draft horsea are now being bred upon the
ranches,
Fire Horace Hard to Find. .
It is difficult to get good horsea for the
fire department. The principal requisite for
a Are horse Is good horse sense. He must
have with thla strength, vim and nerve.
No quitter will do for a Are horse, for
they have to make some hard runs in thl
town. The trucka and englnea are heavy
and many of the runs are up hills which
tax a horse to his limit. A Are horae haa
a heavV load to move and he has to mov
it fast, and especial attention must be paid
to the wind of this class.
Trapped a Wildcat
escape through the top of the chimney
and failed I was there at the fireplace
waiting, for him to come down among
the ashes again. By that time the cat!
was mad clear through and so was I, fori
the ashes and coal were scattered to every
part of the cabin, and the air was thick '
with the smell of singed balr. When the
cat bounded Into sight I nabbed him with
both hands by the nape of - the neck and
thrust him away the full length .of my
arms. Intending to choke htm Into sub-'
mission. . But he was not feezed for an '
Instant by the choking. With a snarl ot
rage and pain he doubled up his hind
legs and struck out at , me with them,
ripping my California .flannel underclothes
from my throat to the kneea. He1 ripped
open my hide aa well aa the flannels, and
I dropped that cat as If he was a redhot
stone and ran for the other end of the
cabin. t
"Seeing that he was not inclined to
follow up the fight, but . was content to
sit on ths hearth and growl and' spit at
me, I plucked up courage and opened th
door. Even the cat did not show any
aigna of ' vamoosing the ranch, but sat
on his. haunches and swore. I had BO
weapon of any kind save a broom and
with ' considerable difficulty I Anally
'shooed' the unwelcome visitor out of
the cabin. Even then he squatted down
on the doorstep and growled and swore
at 'me as If hesitating whether or not
he should not come back and have It
out with me for disturbing his feast.
Finally he trotted oft into the brush, look
ing back occasionally and growling as he
went. He never came back after any
more venison ana I never have had a
hankering for any more wild animals peta
aloe that due." JLnacenAa Standard,
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